Vesting day and beyond
Vesting day, benefits realisation and embedding.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Leading through Reorganisation, Mergers and Shared Services
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
Vesting day is the start, not the finish. This module sets out Huish and Milliner's six lessons from councils that have moved from district into unitary, Balogun and Johnson's research on how middle managers make sense of restructuring, and why staff need the why first. It covers what makes a benefit real, why benefits disappoint, transition savings against lasting benefits, early unitary experience and a learning loop after vesting. This capstone reads three real cases through the lenses of the whole programme: the Tri-borough shared service, the failure and replacement of Northamptonshire County Council, and the new unitaries of Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset drawn from Huish and Milliner. It draws out five threads running through every case, purpose, politics, people, culture and time, and brings the programme together as one loop: lead the people, and structure follows.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Explain Huish and Milliner's six lessons and why middle managers, as Balogun and Johnson found, are the pivot point of structural change.
- Use owner, measure, baseline and timing to test whether a benefit in a business case is real, and identify the common traps that make benefits disappoint.
- Distinguish one-off transition savings from lasting benefits and communicate estimates honestly, separating evidence, estimate and hope.
- Analyse a real case of structural change through the lenses of drivers, model, people, politics and benefits.
- Explain why structure can follow failure but cannot fix it alone, using the Northamptonshire case and Schein's levels of culture.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 08Vesting Day and Beyond: Embedding, Benefits and LearningVesting day is the start, not the finish. This module sets out Huish and Milliner's six lessons from councils that have moved from district into unitary, Balogun and Johnson's research on how middle managers make sense of restructuring, and why staff need the why first. It covers what makes a benefit real, why benefits disappoint, transition savings against lasting benefits, early unitary experience and a learning loop after vesting.36 min
- 09Applied Case Studies: CapstoneThis capstone reads three real cases through the lenses of the whole programme: the Tri-borough shared service, the failure and replacement of Northamptonshire County Council, and the new unitaries of Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset drawn from Huish and Milliner. It draws out five threads running through every case, purpose, politics, people, culture and time, and brings the programme together as one loop: lead the people, and structure follows.40 min
Keep going.
Part of the Leading through Reorganisation, Mergers and Shared Services topic, also sold whole as Rebuilding together.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, People and vesting day, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- The whole topicExplore, Rebuilding together, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Building the new council
Other Bitesize in the Leading through Reorganisation, Mergers and Shared Services topic
- From district to unitaryLocal government reorganisation in England1 hour 45 minutes£39
- Joining forces wiselyShared services and public sector mergers1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Keeping people with youCulture and leadership in structural change1 hour 15 minutes£39
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